J. G. Holland Quotes
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.
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The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor—they never overlap, do they?See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?Losing weight and looking like the poor.
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The idea that either individuals or organisations are 'too big to fail' or that the tech and start-up sector is somehow different is wrong.
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That's something that I gotta prove - I don't like being labeled as 'soft.' I'm not soft.
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I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'
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As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.
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Losing your parent is unlike anything.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
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A negative mind will never give you a positive life.
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It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.
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The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy, that it values intelligence and creativity, that everyone has a fair shot if they just work hard enough. This was true only if you were technical, and even that may not always be enough: in the age of the social network, who you know and who your friends were was becoming increasingly important.
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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
